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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn't want to do movies that much. I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.

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I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.

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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.

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It's not personal, it's strictly business

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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

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Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

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[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

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My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

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It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly

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It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.

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On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?

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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That's par for the course.When you're a movie star, it went with it. It's a kind of rite of passage, socially.

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We're charlatans in a way, we're magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style, I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they'll pay attention long enough to consume it.

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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.

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When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

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